It was initially thought that Dark Organizations could not be fixed. The deepest challenge in reforming one is caused by the ...
What they are doing is “socializing negatives,” or passing the cost of bad behavior by a few onto the many. This is backward, ...
Since 1990, creativity in the West has declined. This decline in creativity is not merely a statistical anomaly or a result ...
Mediocrites was an early system man or career man. He did all the right things to get public acclaim and worked within the ...
Nothing quite turns off the freedom brain as much as unbounded terms such as freedom, liberty, independence, equality, and ...
There is no more individualistic place than the third world. You do whatever you want, avoiding a few basic taboos, and then ...
During these thirty years, we have had a steadily accelerating competence crisis: bureaucracies that bungle every form, ...
The world is coming around to see his point on Iran. These people are so invested in pride that they deny reality. Most ...
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Self-Pity

Self-pity works in our minds because of the inherent potential solipsism of thinking itself. A thinking creature can always abstract itself away and view itself and the world as the same thing, in a ...
Until you send a signal of hard negation, they will keep coming. You have to be like Trump and gesture clearly and cleanly that you want none of them. If they cannot get in, they will stop coming, but ...
People select for people like themselves. This means that when foreign groups move in, the original group moves out. Normally this means that the foreign group then departs, but in democracy, we fund ...
The UK discovers the Urban Heat Island Effect, but somehow the lesson is lost on democracy-addled minds. Maybe natural selection will purge us of them.